Minister Gilmore claims the €800,000 annual costs of keeping the Vatican Embassy open were not justifiable.
Our national overseas aid programme to Vietnam (Hanoi) is €11m each year for the next three years. For what reason this state needs our aid, nobody here seems to know. Is it not possible to reduce this by €1m per annum so that this could then be used to maintain our full status with The Holy See?
The almost-totally Catholic cabinet, who now represent the majority faith in Ireland have, thanks to the decision of one self-confessed atheist, disgraced us all as a Catholic nation.
John Herriott Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin
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This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Tuesday, February 07, 2012
